- Tue Apr 30, 2013 2:57 pm
#307250
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I find myself more and more looking at articles on the BBC News website and thinking "Really? This is news?"
Here's one from today: Hapless attempt at parallel parking in Belfast is internet hit
It's even more prevalent on some of the magazine articles in the sport section - for example, there was a fairly long piece of "research" put up earlier in the year about who were the best football managers, which was based on a table of the number of wins each manager in the football league had.
I'm not sure if it's down to the beeb trying to replicate some of the strategy that's been successful for the Mail online, or a consequence of budget cuts or perhaps just the general dumbing down of the media. Has anyone else noticed this sort of trend?
Here's one from today: Hapless attempt at parallel parking in Belfast is internet hit
It's even more prevalent on some of the magazine articles in the sport section - for example, there was a fairly long piece of "research" put up earlier in the year about who were the best football managers, which was based on a table of the number of wins each manager in the football league had.
I'm not sure if it's down to the beeb trying to replicate some of the strategy that's been successful for the Mail online, or a consequence of budget cuts or perhaps just the general dumbing down of the media. Has anyone else noticed this sort of trend?
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